William Smythe was an

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering ...

head in the 16th century. Smyth was educated at

Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the un ...

, and was Rector of that college from 1519 to 1521. He held the

living Living or The Living may refer to: Common meanings *Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms ** Living species, one that is not extinct *Personal life, the course of an individual human's life * Hu ...

at St Thomas, Salisbury from 1533. He died in 1537.Exeter College', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp107–118

References

Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford 16th-century English people {{UOxford-stub